Bill Text: NY A06598 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to assaults on supervisory personnel of a transit system performing assigned duties; elevates such assault to second degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A06598 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06598-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6598
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 9, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to assault in the second
          degree upon a supervisory member of a transit system
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as sepa-
     2  rately  amended  by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train  operator,  ticket
     5  inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
     6  cleaner  [or], terminal cleaner or supervisory personnel employed by any
     7  transit agency, authority or company, public or private, whose operation
     8  is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions,  a
     9  city  marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two
    10  hundred eight-a of the general  municipal  law,  a  traffic  enforcement
    11  officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision
    12  thirty-one  of  section  1.20  of the criminal procedure law, sanitation
    13  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, public health  sani-
    14  tarian,  New  York  city  public  health  sanitarian,  registered nurse,
    15  licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or  emer-
    16  gency  medical  service  technician, he or she causes physical injury to
    17  such train operator,  ticket  inspector,  conductor,  signalperson,  bus
    18  operator,  station  agent,  station  cleaner  [or], terminal cleaner, or
    19  supervisory personnel, city marshal,  school  crossing  guard  appointed
    20  pursuant  to  section  two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law,
    21  traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement  agent,  prosecutor  as
    22  defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal proce-
    23  dure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical nurse, public health
    24  sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforce-
    25  ment  agent,  New York city sanitation worker, emergency medical service
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04238-01-7
        A. 6598                             2
     1  paramedic, or emergency medical service technician, while such  employee
     2  is performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to, the operation
     3  of  a  train or bus, including the cleaning of a train or bus station or
     4  terminal,  or such city marshal, school crossing guard, traffic enforce-
     5  ment officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdi-
     6  vision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,  regis-
     7  tered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse, public health sanitarian, New
     8  York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforcement  agent,  New
     9  York  city  sanitation  worker,  emergency medical service paramedic, or
    10  emergency medical service technician is performing an assigned duty; or
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.